Last week, a Federal Aviation Administration panel recommended that the longstanding rule requiring passengers to power down personal electronics for takeoff and landing be ditched. There’s a good chance you will soon be able to fly without interrupting that novel you’re enjoying on your Kindle or the game of Candy Crush Saga on your iPhone.

• Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT Through Registrar Melbourne IT – The Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking the DNS settings for the New York Times and Twitter, apparently accessing them through a reseller account of Melbourne IT’s domain registry services. The sites are back up, and you can
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For some time now, hackers based in China have been infiltrating the computer networks of United States businesses and institutions. From Google to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Commerce Department to U.S. satellites, Chinese attackers have been fingered as the culprits in numerous breaches. Usually, the reports of how the attacks went down
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• Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months – Chinese hackers broke into the network at the New York Times, essentially having their way with the newspaper’s computers. The password for every employee was stolen, but the attackers appeared to be after only information about the sources of a story on the
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